Richard Cockburn Maclaurin | |
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 Maclaurin in 1910 | |
| 6th President of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| In office 1909–1920 | |
| Preceded by | Arthur Amos Noyes(acting) |
| Succeeded by | Elihu Thomson(acting) |
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| Born | (1870-06-05)June 5, 1870 |
| Died | January 15, 1920(1920-01-15) (aged 49) |
| Alma mater | Auckland University College (B.Sc. (Hons), Mathematics, 1890) BA, 1895 (12thwrangler); LL.D., 1904,St John's College, University of Cambridge.[1] |
| Awards | Smith's Prize(1898) |
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Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (/ˈkoʊbərn/KOH-bərn; June 5, 1870 – January 15, 1920)[2][3] was aScottish-bornU.S. educator and mathematicalphysicist. He was made president ofMIT in 1909, and held the position until his death in 1920.
During his tenure as president of MIT, the Institute moved across theCharles River fromBoston to its present campus inCambridge. In Maclaurin's honor, the buildings that surround Killian Court on the oldest part of the campus are sometimes called the Maclaurin Buildings.
Earlier, he was a foundation professor of the thenVictoria College of theUniversity of New Zealand from 1899 to 1907. A collection of lecture theatres at the Kelburn campus of that university were named after him. He was also a professor atColumbia University from 1907 to 1908.
Maclaurin was born in Scotland, and was related to the noted Scottish mathematicianColin Maclaurin. He emigrated to New Zealand with his family at the age of four. In 1904 he married Alice Young of Auckland, and they had two sons. His brotherJames Scott Maclaurin (1864–1939) was a noted chemist, who invented a process for extracting gold with cyanide.
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